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Saturday, October 4, 2014

Traumatic Moments

I took Friday off work to prepare for my niece's bridal shower. When I first got up it was rainy and blustery. I knew I wanted to get a walk in, but just could not make myself go then. I kept my eye on the weather and managed to find a great time for a walk. Love the sun and the after rain freshness.

Time to take the new shoes for a test drive. I ended up walking four miles in them this morning. During the last mile or so the ball of my left foot started hurting...it was very uncomfortable. I am not sure if it is the shoes or my lack of walking recently. I am going to go back to my old shoes for my next walk. If that goes okay, I will try the new shoes again. If I have the pain again I will be taking them back for an exchange. In the meantime, my husband is loving his new shoes :)

I am not generally crazy about Halloween decorations, but this little spider made me smile.

I have seen this cat on my walks before. He came out to me on the road again. I thought he might let me pet him but at the last second he veered away.

After a about a mile and a half I ran into my sister. She and my niece joined in on my walk. I had planned to walk 3 miles, but wanted to hang out longer so I opted to go another mile with them.

We met up with the crazy cat again. This time he was in the middle of murdering a chipmunk. We were slightly traumatized. My first thought I wanted a picture because the chipmunk was so cute and I really didn't think the cat had a chance. Unfortunately, by the time we realized the chipmunk wasn't getting away, we couldn't save it from the cat.

Now that he is a suspect I am not sure I should show his face. I am telling you this cat is trouble.

Saturday has been non-stop shower prep. I think this is the first time I have sat down to do anything else today. I can't say much about the shower yet because the bride and my sister are blog readers and I don't want to spoil the surprise. I will give a full report next week.

Earlier today when I came home from the store I had quite a scare. With my arms full of bags and reaching to unlock the door I heard a dog barking. At first I thought it was the neighbor's, but quickly realized that it was not her dog's voice. I turned around to see a big pit bull running toward me. I couldn't the door unlocked quick enough. So there I am basically cornered between the screen door and the wooden door yelling at the dog to go away. It was about 6 feet away from me barking and baring its teeth. Thankfully, someone started calling it and it went. Turns out it lives across the street. Hopefully, this is a one time incident. I was pretty scared, I am so glad I wasn't talking Millie outside. I don't think that would have ended well.

12 comments:

Oh my goodness! What a terrible thing to happen (the dog incident!) And the chipmunk too but the moreso the dog. Ugh. Can you go talk to the neighbors? Do they normally have that dog in a fenced in yard? Geez, I'm so sorry that happened but glad you are ok (other than startled!)